Lanai Tabura returns to radio with KUMU
Comedian, TV host, and actor Lanai Tabura is returning to Honolulu radio on 94.7 KUMU-FM. Beginning March 7, “Lanai’s Traffic
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Filmed on Oahu, ‘Lost Treasure’ debuts Jan. 11
A new family adventure film that was shot entirely on location on Oahu will be available on VOD and DVD across the US and Canada on Tuesday, January 11.
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Veteran newscaster Diane Ako launches PR firm
Longtime Island newscaster Diane Ako has opened her own public relations firm, “Diane Ako PR.†She specializes in media placements for traditional media as well as online articles, but will handle a scope of public relations tasks that include media-training, crisis communications, producing company videos, and more.
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Panel to unpack recent changes in Honolulu’s media landscape
Join a panel of local news executives and experts for an informal roundtable discussion on some of the recent changes in Honolulu media.
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Hiki NÅ Festival showcases student video stories
The public is invited to view outstanding student-produced video stories on the big screen at PBS Hawaii’s first-ever Hiki NÅ Festival. The featured stories, produced last school year, have aired on PBS Hawaii’s student news program, Hiki NÅ, and are nominated in this year’s Hiki NÅ Awards. Hiki NÅ is Hawaii’s first statewide student news network, made up of 86 public, private and charter schools from across the islands. Through the production of video news stories about their schools and communities, students gain valuable workforce and life skills, while teachers engage their students in hands-on, collaborative learning.
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Hawaii Herald launches online edition
The Hawai‘i Herald today took a major step forward in its more than thirty year Âhistory with the launch of its online edition. The debut issue is focused on the Primary Election, with a story on the “David vs. Goliath†gubernatorial race between incumbent Governor Neil Abercrombie and veteran State Senator David Ige, as well as a Q&A forum on the issues with responding candidates for the major offices.
“This is an historic moment for The Hawai‘i Herald, the only HawaiiÂ-based newspaper dedicated to covering the local Japanese American community,†says Keiichi Tagata, president of parent company Hawaii Hochi, Ltd. “After 34 years of sharing stories in print with loyal readers, mostly in Hawaii, we look forward to sharing the Herald with a wider audience of readers around the world.”
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State blasts ‘American Jungle’ shoot in Hawaii
In response to The History Channel’s new series “American Jungle,†the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR), as well as representatives of hunting, animal protection and film agencies in Hawaii, find the series’ depiction of hunting activities on the Island of Hawaii to be inaccurate, offensive, and in some cases, potentially illegal.
The DLNR Division of Conservation Resource Enforcement (DOCARE) is currently conducting an investigation into whether several of DLNR’s rules and regulations may have been broken during the filming of the program. Activities such as night hunting both on public and private land, are illegal under Hawaii Revised Statues §183D-27 and Hawaii Administrative Rules §13-123-6. The Division of Forestry and Wildlife (DOFAW), which oversees DLNR’s hunting program, denied a permit request last spring for the production to film on state forest lands.
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New surf magazine ‘nude’ launches with app
A new quarterly surf culture magazine is launching alongside a custom, free iPhone app. Co-founders Matt Luttress and Chance Carpenter say ‘nude’ will be “documenting surf stories from the ageless sea… focusing on enchanting art and cultural stories.”
In print, the bilingual publication will be distributed at select locations on each of the major Hawaiian Islands. Digitally, it will explore surfing’s elegant roots in both article and short films through the app.
Luttress and Carpenter say that ‘nude’ aims to create an unparalleled mobile magazine experience, seamlessly melding the beauty of print with the immediacy of digital. The magazine will release a teaser trailer for a new surf story every Friday via the app.
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‘MANA Magazine’ to launch in April
MANA Magazine, which will be devoted exclusively to Hawaiian culture and current affairs, will launch in April 2012. The bi-monthly
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Hawaii couple launches pop culture podcast
The Hawaii-based husband and wife duo behind one of the world’s most successful blogs and podcasts devoted to the TV show “LOST” has launched a new daily pop culture show.
Ryan and Jen Ozawa, hosts of “The Transmission,” launched “Popspotting” on May 23, exactly one year after “LOST” left the airwaves. But instead of devoting over an hour of conversation a week to a single show, “Popspotting” serves up a bite-sized chat every weekday, and covers movies, television, music, books, and much more.
“Popspotting†also adds guests into the mix, with regular trivia challenges and special interviews planned.
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Hiki NÅ student news network launching
They’re on the verge of making history. Several hundred students from Kauai, Niihau, Oahu, Maui, Molokai, Lanai and Hawaii Island
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Pearl City library stocks up on K-Dramas
Pearl City library received a notable donation of over 20 DVDs featuring Korean soap operas courtesy Palama Supermarkets.
Palama Supermarkets, one of the largest Korean-owned businesses in Hawaii with three locations on Oahu,
selected Pearl City Public Library to receive the DVDs because of the close proximity to its recently-opened Waimalu store.
ABC's 'Bachelorette' Visits Big Island for July 27 Finale
Hawaii fans who watched ABC’s “The Bachelorette†Jillian Harris bid aloha to Reid Rosenthal after their romantic date on Maui
Read moreKHON tops in news ratings
Flush with the record-setting audiences sucked in by the FOX network’s “American Idol,” KHON announced today that the latest Nielsen
Read moreAdvertiser workers rally for new contract
Unionized employees at the Honolulu Advertiser held a lunch-hour rally outside the newspaper building yesterday to call attention to the
Read moreCase joins fight to undo FCC changes
Hawai`i Rep. Ed Case is part of a bipartisan campaign in Congress to reverse last week’s controversial decision by the
Read moreGannett grabs tourist mags
The owner of Hawaii’s largest daily newspaper has acquired a series of magazines geared toward tourists and its associated website,
Read morePolanski victim speaks out
Today she’s 39 years old, but she still finds it hard get out from under the shadow of what happened
Read morePress should press Bush, veteran journalist says
The U.S. media is “becoming more and more an echo chamber” of the Bush administration and not asking hard questions
Read moreStrike on Iraq would test media
The “24/7 media culture” that dominates TV news today will be tested if America goes to war with Iraq, an
Read moreCalifornia paper profiles O`ahu's 'great indoors'
In a series of articles published today in The Sacramento Bee, travel editor Janet Fullwood gives West Coast readers an
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